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Medical Environment Update

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Q&A: Addressing cultural challenges in the lab: Part 1

December 13, 2025

Laboratory Safety

It doesn’t take a lot to make a culture, but in the laboratory or clinic it takes a great deal of work to make a culture into a safety culture. Even when two facilities have the same polices and rules...

Mac's Safety Space

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Mac's Safety Space: Additional training may not bode well if you’re managing the environment

October 02, 2023

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

There are one or two takeaways from the recent CMS approval of our friends from Chicago to continue accrediting critical access hospitals that gave me pause. ...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Reducing healthcare carbon emissions: Using the AHRQ & IHI Primer on climate change at your clinic

December 13, 2025

Environment and Facilities, Health Equity

The idea of tackling climate change can seem immense, particularly for an already overworked healthcare staff, but breaking down sources of healthcare greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and setting reason...

Healthcare Safety Leader

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Book excerpt: Miscellaneous aspects of the Life Safety Code

September 26, 2023

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

Important aspects of Life Safety Code® compliance that are important to be aware of come survey time. ...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Recruiting and retaining nurses: A critical challenge facing the healthcare industry

December 13, 2025

Workplace safety, Healthcare Staff

Recruiting, staffing, and retaining nurses who are knowledgeable, skilled, and experienced is an evergreen concern for healthcare organizations. As the demographic makeup of the U.S. nursing populatio...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Aligning community school district initiatives with healthcare

December 13, 2025

Patient Safety, Health Equity

One of the best ways for community schools to implement healthcare solutions is to work with an education-focused healthcare provider in their area. ...

Medical Environment Update

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Making better outcomes: How team-based care fits into high reliability

December 13, 2025

Leadership & Finance, Patient Safety, Quality & Errors

“Often the work drives us together, but again, then it gets to that difference between ‘we connect when we have to because the work demands it’ versus ‘we’re intentional in the team construct and we m...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Greenhouse gas emissions: The carbon is coming from inside the hospital

December 13, 2025

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities, Leadership & Finance, Patient Safety, Health Equity

The American healthcare sector produces an estimated 8.5% of the country’s total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and accounts for 25% of global health sector emissions—the highest proportion attributab...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

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Executive Briefing 2023: TJC to increase focus on health equity, environmental sustainability, and staff support

September 26, 2023

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

In the coming year, hospitals accredited by The Joint Commission will see more on-site complaint surveys, plus more focus on their progress regarding health equity and environmental sustainability. Bu...

Mac's Safety Space

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Mac’s Safety Space: Egress and the art of mobility

September 25, 2023

Environment and Facilities, Fire & Life Safety

Thoughts on the introduction of technology as a function of mobile units (CT, PET MRI, etc.) and how those arrangements might come into play as a function of fire response plans, egress and any other ...

Q&A: Addressing cultural challenges in the lab: Part 1

Mac's Safety Space: Additional training may not bode well if you’re managing the environment

Reducing healthcare carbon emissions: Using the AHRQ & IHI Primer on climate change at your clinic

Book excerpt: Miscellaneous aspects of the Life Safety Code

Recruiting and retaining nurses: A critical challenge facing the healthcare industry

Aligning community school district initiatives with healthcare

Making better outcomes: How team-based care fits into high reliability

Greenhouse gas emissions: The carbon is coming from inside the hospital

Executive Briefing 2023: TJC to increase focus on health equity, environmental sustainability, and staff support

Mac’s Safety Space: Egress and the art of mobility

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